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Profil

Nick is a partner with 20+ years’ experience specialising in both contentious and non-contentious UK, EU and International Environmental and Climate Change law.

Nick is consistently recognised as a leading individual for Environmental Law by Legal 500, Chambers, London Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers UK, Who’s Who Legal for Environmental Lawyers, and for Climate Change.

Chambers UK 2019:“superb”

Legal 500 UK 2019: “incredibly knowledgeable and commercial”

Chambers UK 2018: "thoughtful, articulate and a good negotiator in the sense that he can take a hard-line position but does so in an inoffensive way. He has an uncanny ability to pick up on points that no one else seems to have to thought about."

On the contentious side, Nick handles civil, criminal and administrative environmental and climate change disputes including defence of “toxic tort” cases, defence of and judicial review of the acts of environmental regulators and carbon trading disputes.

He also has extensive experience of handling soil, water, air quality and natural habitat pollution issues, permitting issues, environmental impact assessments, waste management issues and in the remediation and redevelopment of large brown-field sites.

Nick also specialises in global product compliance issues, with a wealth of experience in the EHS aspects of bringing a new product to market, importation, distribution and supply, through to managing product recall and end-of-life take back.

Nick is an acknowledged expert in climate change law and practice. He has advised many companies on their participation in the regulated and voluntary carbon markets, including in particular the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, CDM and JI emissions reductions projects in numerous ERPA disputes and other emissions trading litigation.

Examples of Nick’s experience are set out in the ‘Experience’ tab under relevant subject matter headings.